The Brass Teapot

amerindie   Juno Temple

A young impoverished couple come upon a magical teapot which spews money whenever they feel pain. This premise sets up a host of situations where these two people deliberately hurt themselves to generate cash...a pretty obvious metaphor for what the majority of people do with their lives. It also comes across as masochism, pure and simple.

Silly. Sort of played for laughs but nothing I saw was funny. There was an awful lot of hitting, cutting, bashing used here for 'humor'...which wasn't. They should have used some other gimmick for getting the thing to work. This forced too much mean-spiritedness on what should have been a satirical comedy.

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